the philippines improves to 31 and 1 with this knockout. coming up at 11:00. de lasalle on the field and michael crabtree giving back to the community. >>> still to come, a helping welcome to my secret lair. and you are? your worst nightmare mr. box. since you foolishly brought back your bonus jack! i have copied your two pure beef patties, lettuce, melting cheese, pickles, and middle bun, plus fries and a drink for $4.49. and now you will tell me what is in your secret sauce!! uh, i think i know. "we all know," "pretty obvious." you couldn't tell me when i handed out the wiener-dog lasers!?! >>> coming up at 11:00, we're learning more about heroes in yesterday's deadly shooting in newtown, connecticut. victims and the heroes. plus, the bomb threat that shut down two schools in the south bay. what authorities are saying about the suspect tonight on abc news at 11:00. the act of giving back and sharing the wealth is alive and well. building housing

. -- the moon. aid workers in the southern philippines are trying to rescue people trapped in the mud and fled after a powerful typhoon. more than 500 are known to have died. close to four hundred are missing. evacuation centers are overflowing with people. more than 300 thousands have lost their homes. the country's president flew into an island and that survivors. the widespread damage and those trying to pick up the pieces. >> a life turned upside down. in the schools that have become the evacuation centers, they cannot take in the enormity of what has happened. they are reliant for the most basic supplies. >> we are hoping to get financial assistance. almost all the people have nothing to eat. >> their homes are damaged. many beyond repair. bridges have been destroyed. even the banana trees have not been scared. they were the main source of income for many. the philippine president came to see the extent of the devastation and promised to learn lessons from the disaster. >> i want to account for those who are still alive, to reach them as soon as possible. i want to know why this

the philippines are still trying to rescue people trapped in the flood waters days after a typhoon. more than 500 people are known to have died. close to 400 are still missing. makeshift evacuation centers are overflowing with people. more than 300,000 have left their homes. the country's president flew into the southern island and bore the brunt of the storm. >> a life turned upside down. in the schools that have now become evacuation centers, the people cannot quite take and the enormity of what happened. their reliance on government and aid agencies for basic supplies. >> we are hoping to get financial assistance. and rice. people have nothing to eat. >> buildings are damage, many beyond repair. votes and barges have been destroyed. even banana trees have not inspired. they were the main source of income for many people here. >> i want to account for those were still alive, if they still are, to reach them as soon as possible. i want to know why this tragedy happened. >> people here want to know why it happened too. very few are as strong as this one, but right now, they have no

philippines, the death toll from that powerful typhoon increased to 350 and almost 400 people are still missing. that number will go even higher. >>> and in new york city, a homeless man is facing charges of second-degree murder in the death of a man who was pushed right in front of an on coming subway train. davis is being held without bail and due back in court on tuesday. >>> well what goes up must come down. that is not what apple investors want to hear. the iphone maker stock continued to fall in extended trading after plunging more than 6% in the regular session for the worst single day decline since 2008. apple is now down more than 20% since the september peak. >>> meanwhile, citigroup shot up on news of the company's cost cutting measures that will slash 11,000 jobs. >>> starbucks is expanding with plans to open 3,000 new cafes in u.s., mexico and canada. >>> a new government commission report finds that exporting the nation's new found surplus of natural gas would do the nation good citing the overall economic boost would outweigh higher domestic prices. >>> and economic

constitution. the death toll from the massive typhoon in the philippines has now topped 310 people with hundreds more missing. typhoon bopha is the most southerly typhoon to ever hit the pacific. 200,000 people have also been displaced after winds and flooding destroyed or heavily damaged their homes. at least three people have been killed in a u.s. drone strike in the pakistani region of north waziristan. the attack targeted a home with a pair of missiles. pakistani intelligence says the victims were suspected militants. the syrian government is accusing western leaders of drumming up support for foreign military intervention by invoking a month on fears of chemical weapons. this week, president obama warned president bashar al-assad against chemical weapons, about an unspecified consequences. speaking to leaders in brussels, hillary clinton followed suit. >> our concerns are that an increasingly desperate assad regime may turn to chemical weapons, or may lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within syria. so as part of the absolute unity we have on this

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death toll from the typhoon in the philippines has risen to more than one- thousand. typhoon hit earlier this month, and it devastated towns in the country's mountains and along the coast. officials are still searching for nearly eight- hundred and 50 missing people. government christmas celebrations have been cancelled. instead, resources are being devoted to the search, and to helping survivors deal with losses. >> up next. we'll talk to a bay area doctor who specializes in male psychology. but first, more reaction from people who knew the victims of friday's school massacre. here now, a family friend of teacher victoria soto. >> she drove us to cheerleading practices. i am also a teacher i cannot even imagines going through what she went through. i think putting herself out there she is such an angel. she went straight to heaven, there's no doubt about that. [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] ♪ [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers... of secondhand smoke...

people of the southern philippines struggled to recover today from a deadly typhoon. nearly 300 were dead, and officials warned the number could go higher. more than half the victims were in the compostela valley province. the storm made landfall there, early on tuesday. we have a report narrated by richard pallot of "independent television news." >> reporter: a mother cradles her terrified daughter, but at reist they have found shelter. so many didn't at the cost of many hundreds of lives. gustes of nearly 100 miles per hour ripping through the southern philippines, triggering landslides and floods. authorities describe how entire families were just washed away. much of the initial rescue operation was in the dark with electricity and communications cut off. entire villages waiting for the lights to see what was left and who survived, many already hearing the worst. typhoons are common here with approximately 20 striking a year, but warnings from the president about the severity of this particular storm, so many philippineoze move out in advance. the death toll in the hundreds, rath

philippine-american war. but -- spanish american war and ended up in 2012. but we started in the series now. the book two years into the series, we decided, this is getting very serious, and we know i'm going to be called on this because of my background and making movies. going to say this is part fiction, part fantasy, but we decided to go with this book, and it -- peter took over the book. i was running the film, and we were cross-speaking all the time and checking each other constantly. i took about four and a half, five years now, and that where we are today. >> want to add to that? >> we've been friends for that whole period, since 1996. and then we decided we were going to go ahead with this project, and i thought we could do it in that year, a 60-minute documentary. i went to see oliver in new york two week later, and a ten-hour series, what i thought would take one semester and took four and a half years. so it's been a big project. it was important for us to have the book. i was suppressed how little information you can convey in a 60-minute documentary. so the book, it was an 800

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fascinated by the 30's and we did a chapter on the 30's and also the philippine, the woodrow wilson period, and what happens is the concept of communism comes and goes and has many phases in america but it's leiber and ties to the ideas that some of the ideals of socialism and we see it in the movement of the 1870's and we see the relationship to the french collectives of the 1870's and the 1830's. there are the working man's rights, the farm movement, the progressive movement. she kind of puts a stop on that. he comes down and goes to jail and all these people disappear and are thrown out of the country because of was world war i. so, these are the forces that are moving america. there is movement towards this place we are going to. i am curious to know what you think those forces are. where the labor movement is going to end up because they argue there are moments in history, tiffin plants things can change where there can be of wallace, they can make that convention moment. >> it could turn, and it could turn again and maybe had turned in the past view estimate it came so close.

. >> reporter: thanks, jon. jenna: desperate rescue and recovery underway in the philippines. a historic typhoon hammering that country killing at least 370 people. another 400 are missing. this story is still very much developing right now. families are searching for lost loved ones and scanning walls of pictures showing the dead as well as the missing. david piper joining us live by phone from nearby bangkok, thailand. david? >> reporter: hi, jeanne that. -- jenna. rescue teams are racing against time to find survivors from this disaster in the southern philippines. the typhoon boha swept across mindanoa. nearly 400 people are dead as you said but nearly 400 are remain missing. in eastern mindanoao where 400 people died. many killed by flash floods hit emergency shelters. the government warned the area before the typhoon struck. there seemed to be few places to go and those that did proved to be death traps. tens of thousands of people were moved to shelters ahead of the typhoon but in one town the shelters themselves were swept away by the flash floods. the town was hardest hit, 90% of the bu

follow breaking news out of the philippines, flooding from a -- a typhoon has claim dozens of lives the death toll at 40, 33 villagers and soldiers drowned when water dumped by the storm rushed down a mountain, typhoon bopha slammed into the region at dawn today one of the strongest storms to hit in decades. >>> right now san jose police on the scene of a huge pot bust. investigators tell abc7 news they responded to a home on sandalwood court in east san jose after 3:00 this morning where they phone the doors to the home open. when they -- they went in they found an elaborate grow operation with 300 pot plants inside, three cars seen leaving the area before police got there. terry mcsweeney is headed to the scene we'll have more on later editions of abc7 news. >>> we have a new flash of a different kind. for you hungry deal hunters, burger king is offering famous whooper this week for just 55 cents, the special is to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the sandwich, the deal is good thursday through sunday. here's the catch, you have to buy another whooper at full price to get the second

the philippines has killed 33 people. air travel is suspended. major land slides are reported. more than 50 thou thousand people have -- 50,000 people were evacuated from a deadly storm just a year ago. >>> the dutches of cambridge is pregnant. we will take you live in front of the london hospital where kate middleton was admitted and she was admitted for an acute case of morning sickness. prince william arrived to spend the day with the dutches and she is expected to stay there for several days. this is possibly igniting a new trend. >> there will be lots and lots of pregnant ladies in the next nine months but you could see them as trailblazers. they have not yet confirmed this but only that she has not reaped the 12 -- reached the 12 we can mark. >>> there is sporadic flu activity in california so far and doctors still say get your flu shot. kaiser has given out more than million flu shots. the numbers show every week 36,000 people die in the u.s. pause of flu -- because of flu pill necessaries. >>> -- illnesses. >>> the checks are said to range up to $35,000. to see if you have a

the south american countries, the philippines, places like that with the british american calling colonies. we send a lot of stuff for basic english. to cambodia the u.s. military is teaching the cambodians how to speak english and they are going to be reading see spot run for the different versions of those sort of things. so we are finding all over the world people want to learn english. >> if people want to donate your project what is the website? >> www.big-books.org. >> we have been talking with professor peter and this is his book o.o.p.s observing politicians stumble. we are at the naval academy to get this is book tv on c-span2.

well. and the death toll from a typhoon in the philippines exceeded 400 people. most of them lived in the steep valley in the south of the country. flooding and wind were so severe in places people thought were safe turned up not to be safe. that includes two emergency shelters that were just swept away. it hit tuesday with winds over 170 miles per hour. it's now weakening in the south china sea. >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton just announced the u.s. and russia have reached an agreement in hopes of ending the civil war in syria. clinton has been meeting with the foreign minister and united nations mediator. the deal calls for mediation effort for all parties in syria to bring about a political transition there. syrian president bashar assad must leave power to ensure a democratic future for the country. >>> u.s. stock futures dropped in light traded overnight as investors awaited the november jobs report. >>> it's just out showing the unemployment rate fell to a four year low. good news to talk about it and here to join us is ashley morrison on cbs money watch.com on a

it land here in the yellow sea and a little bit more down here in the philippines. here is what we believe on the range potentially. here is north korea, here is japan, this is the area where the missile took its course. hawaii is about 6,000 kilometers away. you are 3600, 40,000 miles away from the east coast, ask is a little closer than that. you have come up with a scenario that i think is intriguing. you're saying the iranians were there on site when the rocket was launched. >> there are multiple reports from several news organizations right now that where the launch was you had iranian technical experts who have been involved in the missile program in iran. why that is important, the shab missile is based on the typodone2 missile in north korea. the federation of scientists has told us for years that iran has been in bed with north korea sending cash and oil in exchange for their missile technology. bill: they are much closer to reaching the u.s. after something like this. >> yeah, you talk about some of the stuff falling there close to the philippines and so forth. pair in mi

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stronger. >>> in the philippines, a woman clings to a zipline as she's pulled across floodwaters from a recent typhoon. >>> in india, men are pictured in traditional dress at a celebration of tribal cultures. >>> in belarus, a diver tries to capture a sick swan on a frozen lake. >>> and in germany, check it out, around 400 santas gathered to surprise travelers in a train station. hot shots, pictures coming in from around the world. >>> authorities in nebraska didn't have much trouble tracking down an alleged bank robber. and thanks to the suspect, prosecutors shouldn't have a hard time making their case. jeanne moos shows us why. >> reporter: note to accused bank robbers, doesn't help your case to post your self-on youtube waving around cash and holding a sign saying, i robbed a bank, while the band green day blares appropriate lyrics. ♪ i don't need your authority >> reporter: and you might want to reconsider titling your video, chick bank robber. 19-year-old hannah sabata was arrested one day after the cornerstone bank in waco, nebraska, was robbed. according to sheriff dale radcl

. >> reporter: pacquiao is a legend back home in the philippines. he was elected to congress there in 2010. why politics? >> i like to serve people. i'm the one who fights human trafficking, to stop that. i know the feeling of being poor. i know the people in the philippines live in poverty and i wanted to help them. >> reporter: besides congress, you do a few other things. there's the singing. ♪ ♪ sometimes when we touch the honesty is too much ♪ >> reporter: there's the acting. >> our hero is william wallace. william wallace from scotland. >> reporter: if you're not fighting, you're not politicking, you're not in congress, you're not singing, you're not acting, what do you do for fun? >> i like sports. >> reporter: do you lose at anything? >> sometimes i lose. >> reporter: you said you think there's only one or two fights after this for manny. >> yep. >> reporter: is there a lot to of nostalgia then as you sit here training? >> it will be a sad day. but i want to see manny pacquiao go out on top. >> if manny is victorious that will be a significant achievement for him in his c

the philippines where the death toll from a powerful storm reaches the unthinkable. 350 have been confirmed dead. hundred more missing. 200 of the victims died in the valley alone. including 78 villagers and soldiers swept away in a flash flood. that's where entire families were lost. hard to speech the little kids struggling. >>> extreme weather like this has some people asking whether it is the result of climate change. well they also point to the melting ice at the north pole. abc meteorologist ginger zee has more. >> reporter: nearly snowless in december. right now only 7% of the united states is covered in snow. that's even less than this time last year. when 32% of the nation was laced in winter white. not enough snow means no skiing. yet. this resort in washington state has had to wait. >> impatiently. to get our show on the road here. >> reporter: less snow helped make it warmer this past week. almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. all of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. while one week or

visiting thailand and the philippines in october, i was reminded of the economic vitality of southeast asia and the fact that that tend countries comprise an asean represent now the fourth largest export market of the united states. these countries are center stage. we must stand firm with our friends throughout asia and actively pursue prospects for free trade and open sea lanes and other policies that will strengthen american economic growth. more broadly, we face the specter of global resource constraints, especially efficiencies of energy and food that could stimulate conflict and deepen poverty. we have made startling gains in domestic energy production, but we remain highly vulnerable still to our dependency on oil, and perhaps equally important, even if we were able to produce more energy at home, we cannot isolate ourselves from energy shocks in the global economy. we have to cooperate with other nations in improving the global system of manufacturing and moving energy supplies. currently, a key to this is helping to assure the completion of a southern energy corridor serving p

. pacquiao, of course, has thought about running for president of the philippines and he still might some day. before the fight romney went into manny's locker room and had this little comment for him saying, hey, i'm mitt romney. i ran for president. i lost. okay. we'll see if pacquiao blames those words of wisdom for what happened. and speaking of fighters, former heavyweight boxing champ mike tyson has that crazy one-man show that he's been doing. well, it's on a three-month national tour. and it begins in february. the state show tracks his rise to stardom and is set to hit the nation's capital the same week as the white house correspondents dinner. so we challenge you to mix your brunch and mike tyson all up in the same event. good luck with that. coming up, just because the election is over doesn't mean there's no more polling in the battlegrounds. the latest swing state poll are for you. plus a deep dive into the race to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff dive with the bowles half of bowles-simpson. >>> a little different way to look at the markets today. the opening bell just rang.

nearly 300 people in the southern philippines, including 78 villagers who perished during a flash flood. show and tell today on capitol hill. america's top intelligence official brought visual aids with him for his briefing on the september 11 terror attack in libya. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge tells us what lawmakers saw. >> the closed, classified briefing brought together state department and counterintelligence officials for status report on the 23-month-old investigation on benghazi terror attack. >> to the degree there was planning involved was this done over weeks, days or hours? i don't think there is any indication of long-term planning here. >> the attack chronology was laid out in a multimedia presentation that included overhead drone surveillance with the security camera video from the consulate and c.i.a. annex. >> this is supposed to be sovereign u.s. territory. people can just come in and walk in on us like that without any kind of resistanc resistance, making your blood boil. where is the security? >> compilation video was shown last month bu

syria. and then families torn apart by a deadly typhoon in the philippines after more than 300 deaths. the heartbreak. it is still not over. >> see it all over her face. >>> also this morning, a beautiful little girl caught in the middle of a nasty fight. it's an adoption case involving a birth father who didn't even know he was a dad. the battle may tug at your heart strings here. hate to see a little kid wrapped up in the drama. exactly what is playing out in the family. >>> and later, it's a challenge to look so good you can parade around on the catwalk wearing sexy undergarments. the workout regiments that help victoria's secret models look the way they do. i think we all know it is what the good lord blessed them with. they can only work out so much. i am never going to look like that. >> so blessed. so blessed. >>> meanwhile, we move on to serious news this morning. particularly new concerns about the ongoing civil war in syria. the concerns now center on the possible use of chemical weapons by syrian government forces. >> for the latest we are joined by abc's alex marquardt joi

the philippines on tuesday, with more than 400 people still missing. rescuers dug through mud and debris again today, to retrieve bodies in the hardest hit compostela valley region. some 250 people died there. more than 300,000 others lost their homes in the storm. president o blamea-- obama will ask congress for $50 billion for hurricane sandy. they announced it today in a statement the money is to help rebuild road, tunnels and assist thousands of people forced from their homes. those are those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: the u.s. supreme court announced today that for the first time in its history it would review the contentious issue of same-sex marriage. for more on the story we turn to margaret warner. >> warner: the justices agreed to hear arguments in two cases: one is california's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, adopted by voters as referendum proposition 8. it was challenged on grounds that gay citizens have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. the justices will also review a provision of the federal "

philippines, they were all closed in europe. only the uk, french, dutch and spanish stock markets are open and they're going to be closing early. there are now only five trading sessions left in 2012. get your act together. stocks and bonds, solid gains so far this year. the dow has advanced 8% in total. the s&p 500 up almost 14%. the nasdaq has jumped 16%. it's been a good year. the end of the year also means we are just days away from the fiscal cliff, however, and that's the bad news. and looming tax hikes, spending cuts, all of that. both sides warning a very big deal becoming a bit more unlikely. >> and my one bit of advice to speaker boehner is this. you cannot pass a bill with just republicans. on a broad thing like this, you need both. and he has put himself with plan b and sort of an impossible position. he has to get these hard right goes to go along with him. and he and the president were going to say we're going to pass a deal with the majority of republicans and the majority of democrats in the house and senate, we would get a mainstream deal. >> i think we're going t

. zoraida has that for us. >> good morning to you. the death toll in the philippines is rising this morning. typhoon bopha moving toward beach resorts in the northern part of the country and right now it is packing winds over 90 miles an hour. that storm has already caused massive flooding and landslides in the southern philippines. dozens of buildings have been destroyed and the death toll stands at 133 with hundreds more still missing. >>> meantime in rain soaked seattle there are concerns about more mudslides. meteorologist karen maginnis joins us live from atlanta with the latest. they cannot get a break. >> they really can't, and for some folks, this is not coming as good news because it looks like that pineapple express, that moisture coming from deep within the pacific, that's going to be shut off, but we've still got the moisture coming in from the gulf of alaska and that's going to lower the snow levels across the cascades and the olympics down to around 2,000 feet or so. it has been hovering around 3,000 or 4,000 feet. we've got additional snowfall here but also the rain m

. after the great war was over with, he was in the philippines when world war ii started. and sure enough he's captured by the japanese. frank buckles was held in a prisoner of war camp by the japanese for 3 1/2 years and was finally released when americans liberated the philippines. after the war he moved to west virginia and worked on the farm until he was 106 driving the tractor. frank buckles, the last surviving doughboy, lived half of our nation's history. so today we have an opportunity to remember frank buckles, these doughboys, other doughboys, and all those great americans who fought for america 100 years ago . the bill steashes a commission to commemorate the centennial of world war i. the commission will plan programs and activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that great war. time is short. the centennial for the start of world war 1 is in 2014 and many of our allies have already started planning different events. it must be noted that no federal funds will be spent for this commission. they have to raise their own money from private funds. madam speaker, in

za sayah. we'll try bring him back as soon as we can. >>> tremendous heartache in the philippines after typhoon bopha, authorities saying the storm has killed more than 700 people. about 900 others are still missing. many of them fishermen. take a look at damage left behind in south. homes, entire villages destroyed. hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to rebuild. the storm hit last week but officials have just started to make it to some of the remote areas to search for survivors. and just to get a sense of the scope of the damage. the u.n. is asking for 65 million in international aid. >>> the prachk phonk phone call revealed information about the duchess of cambridge may have led to the death of the nurse. they are going to donate $500,000 to the deceased woman's family. she committed suicide after she let the hoax call go through the ward where the duchess was staying. an autopsy on her will be carried out today. she was married and had two children. >>> after four days of testing authorities reveal why nelson mandela is in the hospital and house serious his condition is.

search-and-rescue effort in the philippines with 900 fishermen missing after a typhoon struck. >> new fallout to the growing political conflict in egypt. egyptians in egypt are flooding into the united states many live ing egypt because of the crisis and for their safety. and now, live in los angeles. dominic, what sort of scale is this wave of asylum seekers? >> napolitano at homeland security says we are seeing a doubling of seekers since the muslim brotherhood took power and 100,000 egyptians have turned up according to unofficial figures. it is mostly the coptic christians and we understand, as well, that new constitution does so little to protect minority rights including christians there and this is an attempt by the islamist to wipe out what remains, really, of the christian community in cairo. take a listen. >> christianity is in the middle coast where the cultures have become islamic, christianity only accounts for 3 percent of the middle east. how long will it continue? we dope know. it has to do with politics. >> it has to do with politics and where the government o

typhoon devastating the philippines has made a u-turn. the storm already killed nearly 600 people, and now it is threatening to mick a second land -- threatening to make a second landfall. greg? >>> president obama asking pong for tens -- asking for tens and billions of dollars. he is calling for $64 billion for hard-hit new york and nerming new jersey as well as other states. $37 billion for the victims, recovery and $13 billion in preventive measures in the event of another storm. monday marks six weeks since superstorm sandy slammed into the northeast. thousands of americans still suffering out there in the cold temperatures, and the tempers are flaring over fema's slow response and the lack of housing. >> it is the people in the area that have helped each other. forget red cross. forget all of these other agencies. it was the people that came from all over the united states to help the people. red cross don't deserve credit. they are here now because they are hereafter the fact. >> now good news on the horizon, one hopes, for victims needing shelter in new jersey. let's bring

with vietnam, with the philippines, with australia to a certain degree, with japan in a rapid way in a slightly different fashion. so the u.s. has been lucky enough, in fact, to have been invited back. i can remember living in asia in the '90s during the time when prime minister mahathir was writing books about asian values and the like. and that was very prevalent in asia and singapore. and that really has all drifted into the background these days. you know, the region wants america back there. you know, how you -- in what form and how you balance it and the diplomacy that goes with that is obviously very delicate. but i don't think it's the u.s. rushing back in to confront china so much as a diplomatic opening opening up for washington in the region. >> to the extent - >> how does -- well, go ahead. >> there really are two key features here to asian politics. every country in asia wants a better relationship with china. and they seek it in all aspects of their diplomacy. but it is also the fact that now, as richard indicates, really every country in asia wants the united states

did on the philippines, your efforts on the floor, your amazing humility and sense of purpose is finding the commonground and reaching out to both sides of the aisle. every member of the committee has joined, and i'm presenting you with a resolution, and i just want to read just the introduction whereas throughout his 36 years in the united states senate, richard lugar served indiana and the united states with grace, distinction, and tenacity and will have many more contributions to the nation that reveres and reveres him. we want to present this to you from everybody on the committee, my friend. >> thank you. [applause] >> mr. chairman, i thank you very much. i'm very grateful to have had this opportunity to serve with each one of you. thank you. that's a very special tribute. >> well, it's small compared to your service, but we honor you. finally, we're also going to be losing jim webb and jim demanipulate. jim, as we all know, jim webb came here, did something very few freshman can do by getting a major piece of legislation passed, the new gi bill, and on the committee, he's b